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If your baby comes into the world facing any kind of medical or surgical challenge, our highly skilled teams of Nemours neonatologists (newborn medicine specialists) can give you immediate care right when you need it. Our Neonatology specialists provide compassionate expert care in technologically advanced Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU).
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Fortunately, most newborn problems are temporary and correctable with time and treatment — and our Nemours neonatology specialists are here to support you and your baby from the start.
Our NICUs are well-prepared and experienced in providing the necessary intensive care for babies with conditions such as:
- airway abnormalities
- apnea: brief pauses in breathing that tend to occur in premature infants due to immaturity of the brain's respiratory center
- congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH): a hole in the diaphragm (the large muscle that separates the chest and abdomen)
- gastroschisis: a defect in which a baby's stomach and intestines protrude through an opening at the side of the belly button
- intestinal atresias: when a portion of the intestine fails to form or
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- meconium aspiration: when a newborn inhales (or aspirates) a mixture of meconium (the baby's first feces, or poop) and amniotic fluid (the fluid in which the baby floats inside the amniotic sac) before, during or after labor and delivery
- metabolic disorders: problems involving the complex collection of chemical reactions that take place in the body's cells to convert nutrition into energy
- myelomeningocele: better known as spina bifida, a condition in which the spine doesn't fully close during fetal development
- necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC): inflammation and cell damage in the colon (large bowel) that mostly affects premature babies
- omphalocele: a birth defect in which some of the abdominal organs protrude through the abdominal muscles in a sac outside the body
- pulmonary hypertension: abnormally high blood pressure in the blood vessels leading to the newborn's lungs
- respiratory problems related to prematurity
- seizure disorders: due to dysfunction in the brain's electrical activity
- urogenital disorders: any birth defect affecting either the urinary tract or the genitals
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Of course, we do more than just provide care for your baby — we make sure that you and your family are well taken care of, too. We'll keep you fully informed — explaining your little one's diagnosis and treatment in understandable terms, discussing any treatment options you might have, and inviting your family's input for creating the treatment plan most appropriate for your baby.
We fully recognize that you, the family, play an important role in the care and healing process of your baby. We want you to be an active participant in the decision-making process. Our doctors and nurses will work hard to build a strong partnership with you for your baby's care. And we'll keep your primary care pediatrician fully up-to-date.
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At Nemours Children's Hospital, we offer comprehensive, compassionate, around-the-clock neonatology care in our technologically advanced Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Here for you and your little one right from the very start, our NICU environment truly recognizes the important role you play in the care and healing process of your baby.
Our neonatologists, hailing from highly-recognized hospitals with NICU programs named among the very best in the nation, are committed to making you an integral member of the care team. And every detail, from the private NICU patient rooms (with spacious family living spaces) to the family-centered support services and resources we offer, was designed by families, for families just like yours.
When your newborn comes to Nemours Children's Hospital (NCH), you can rest assured that you're getting high-quality care, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Your baby is under the care of a team of neonatology experts, including:
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Together, we care for newborns and infants with a wide variety of medical and surgical conditions.
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Our NICU is a Level II and IIIc referral center, which means we care for newborns and infants up to 2 months old who require surgery or medical services from our expert neonatology subspecialists.
We have many services readily available, like:
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Our NICU is truly a model of family-centered care. It was designed with input from families who understand what it's like to have a child in the hospital, so you have everything you need, all in one place.
You can stay with your baby in privacy and comfort in one of our large single-patient rooms with sleeping accommodations for parents and a spacious bathroom, wireless internet access, and flat-screen TVs.
Other in-room features include:
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We also offer a number of double rooms for families with twins so everyone can stay together when it matters most.
Along with expert neonatology care, we've created a lovely "hospital within a garden" environment that provides healing of body, mind, and spirit. With beautiful green lawns and mature trees, there are many places for you and your family to go for restful rejuvenation and respite, including our one-acre interactive sensory discovery garden or one of the rooftop gardens on the 2nd and 4th floors.
We have many more comforts and amenities, like:
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The Government Accountability Office soon will release its study assessing the subsidy of the biggest U.S. banks. Lets hope it does a better job than Bloomberg.
Earlier this year, Bloomberg editors reported the ten biggest U.S. banks receive an $83 billion taxpayer subsidy a year. The subsidy doesnt mean taxpayers pay a lump sum to big banks. It means that big banks can borrow at lower rates than small banks because its believed they will be bailed out instead of failing in an emergency.
The $83 billion statistic has been widely cited in congressional testimony and op-eds by industry experts such as Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve; Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and David Vitter, R-La., introduced legislation to eliminate government subsidies enjoyed by trillion-dollar megabanks, citing the $83 billion advantage.
Unfortunately, repeating a statistic doesnt make it true. In reality, the biggest banks in the U.S. are probably operating close to a $14 billion disadvantage annually. The difference can be explained by a slip of the pen by Bloomberg and the cost of 398 new rules from the Dodd-Frank Act.
Bloombergs estimate was based on a 2012 IMF Working Paper by Kenichi Ueda and Beatrice Weder di Mauro. Ueda and di Mauro use the government support rating from Fitch to assess the funding advantage of banks worldwide, many of which benefit from more explicit government support than in the U.S. They find banks were able to access funds for 80 basis points cheaper in 2009. Bloomberg multiplied 80 basis points by all the liabilities of the ten largest U.S. banks, which led to the $83 billion estimate.
The $83 billion estimate may or may not accurately describe banks funding conditions during the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. But it certainly is not the annual funding advantage of large banks, as implied by Bloomberg.
Historically, there are huge differences in bank funding levels during economic crises and normal times. Moodys estimates the largest 20 U.S. banks had a 23 basis point funding advantage over smaller institutions pre-crisis. The official IMF estimate of the big bank funding advantage worldwide is 20 basis points as of 2010.
During 2007 to 2009, the funding advantage grew for banks in nearly all developed countries. The IMF reports that the largest 10 banks in each G20 country had, on average, a 65 basis point funding advantage during the peak of the crisis. The Center for Economic Policy Research estimates that the difference in the cost of funds between large and small U.S. banks reached 78 basis points by mid-2009. (CEPR researchers note a similar increase occurred at the end of the recession in 2001, suggesting that economic uncertainty alone may account for part of the funding advantage as few, if any, large banks were are risk of failure that year).
After the crisis ended, the funding advantage began to shrink. Anthony Haldane, executive director of financial stability at the Bank of England, estimates that the funding advantage for U.K. and global banks more than halved from 2009 to 2010 alone. Moodys and Standard & Poors lowered their projections of government support for U.S. banks, following the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, which made it easier for banks to fail and imposed hundreds of new rules on the banking sector.
For the sake of argument, lets assume the big bank funding advantage returns to its historic average. Following Bloombergs approach, multiplying 20 basis points the official IMF estimates post-crisis by the liabilities of the ten largest U.S. banks generates a subsidy estimate of roughly $20 billion. This is still a considerable amount, but a fraction of the crisis-level estimate.
But wait. Standard & Poors estimates the largest U.S. banks are expected to shoulder an extra $34 billion each year in compliance costs to satisfy new Dodd-Frank rules. Accounting for these new costs, the $20 billion funding advantage becomes a $14 billion annual disadvantage.
Its hard to feel bad for big banks losing money. However, it is important to balance the funding cost advantages of large banks against the government-imposeddisadvantages when deciding policy adjustments to level the playing field so banks of all sizes can compete freely.
Additionally, there remains this nagging question about where the funding advantage actually comes from. Most academic literature concludes it is very difficult to isolate if large financial institutions have lower cost of funds from competitive advantages, such as more liquidity, diversification, government support or something else. Across all industries not just banking the largest companies tend to have a lower cost of funds than their smaller counterparts. It would be a mistake to frame policies that intentionally impose additional costs on large banks that offset market-derived competitive advantages.
Hopefully, the GAO report brings more clarity to the size, fluctuation and source of the subsidy. As of now, there are plenty of reasons to reform the U.S. banking industry. An $83 billion subsidy estimate should not be one of them.
Abby McCloskey is program director of Economic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She was a staffer for Senator Richard Shelby during financial reform and director of research at the Financial Services Roundtable.

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As she picked up a weekly supply of groceries at the food pantry at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston, Jayme Perara thought ahead to Thanksgiving Day. In holidays past, she has served her family turkey, as tradition calls.
But this year, the Franciscans at St. Anthony decided to forgo the traditional bird and hand out chicken instead. With turkey prices rising, and more families falling on hard times, the decision was difficult but clear. Chicken would not kindle the holiday spirit, perhaps, but it would feed more people. Nowadays, that has to come first.
"Our mission is to provide a lot of people with a lot of food," said Joyce Lonergan, director of the Franciscan Food Center at St. Anthony. "There are a few people who really want turkey, but most people really just want food."
With the money it saved by handing out chicken, the pantry was able to give families 15 items of food for the holiday, instead of the usual 12, she said.
For families who describe the pantry as a lifeline, the decision made sense. But it hurt just the same, pricking at a persistent feeling of going without.
"It's a little sad. It's a tradition, and families look forward to having turkey," Perara said. "But they're doing what they have to do."
Charities call the move a practical if painful response to a trend those who turn to them for help are all too familiar with: rising food prices. The average cost of a 16-pound turkey has risen from less than $18 to more than $22 in just two years, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, which cited rising consumer demand as the primary cause.
Surprisingly, food pantries, which buy in bulk, pay more for turkeys than individuals, who benefit from Thanksgiving sales. That has spurred some pantries to hand out grocery gift cards, which Julie LaFontaine calls "plastic turkeys."
"It gets you the best bang for the buck,' said LaFontaine, who directs a pantry in Gloucester, the Open Door. "And it honors the Thanksgiving tradition."
The pantry gives out more than 500 turkeys and then raises money for $10 gift cards to help families buy their own.
The Greater Boston Food Bank will distribute 40,000 turkeys to food pantries this holiday. But with more people looking for help, pantries needed a lower-cost alternative.
"Unfortunately, 40,000 turkeys didn't fill the need" of the pantries, which distribute the turkey and side dishes to needy families, said Erin Caron, a spokesman for the food bank.
Chickens, which are smaller, are more economical for individuals and couples.
"I think the most important thing is that we're providing a meal on Thanksgiving," she said.
This year, the food bank paid $17 a turkey, up from $13 in 2010.
"You want everybody to enjoy the holiday the way we are fortunate enough to," she said.
Craig Richov, director of the state's farm viability program, said turkey prices have been steadily rising, spurring food banks to divert money to other items. "It's more efficient that way," he said.
In Brockton, Catholic Charities turned to chicken to supplement turkeys and other holiday groceries.
"We had to lower the number we could give away," said director Beth Chambers. "It's getting more expensive, and we don't have enough turkeys to go around."
Some 700 families have signed up for turkeys, she said, and an additional 275 will receive chickens.
Charity officials said they have distributed chickens in the past to make sure that more people get a meal on Thanksgiving, but that higher prices and growing demand had forced more groups to do so.
Project Bread reports that food insecurity, defined as having limited or uncertain access to food, has risen to nearly 12 percent in Massachusetts, up 43 percent since the recession began in 2008.
Despite higher food costs, some charities have been able to hand out more Thanksgiving supplies.
United Way, for instance, distributed 7,000 turkeys in Greater Boston, up 40 percent from last year, when it cost $30 for the makings of a full turkey dinner. This year, it cost about $40.
"It was definitely a big jump this year," said Katie Ward of the United Way. "We anticipated food costs were going to go up and that there would be a very strong need."
At St. Anthony, paying more to buy in bulk makes little sense at a time when more families are in want.
"When a member can buy a turkey for less than our acquisition cost, we're just leaving money on the shelf," Lonergan said. "And if we get turkey, but don't have enough for everybody, that creates an unequal situation."
A handful of centers have switched to chicken, and others are considering it for next year, she said.
For the people who turn to St. Anthony, there were mixed emotions. Nirda Pimentel, 43, said the holiday wouldn't feel the same.
"I feel we're not doing Thanksgiving," she said. "It's sad."
Others said they were grateful for any help they could find.
"I'm all for the chicken," said a man named John, who said the food had meant "everything" to him over the past five years.
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debussygirl wrote:threethings wrote:Has this been posted already? Anyway, it really isn't about Twilight, but it mentions it!
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What they argue is that chick flicks like Twilight already have a fan base, but don't they realize that most guy's films do too? All of the superhero movies come from comic books, James Bond has been around forever, and other movies they build off of are classics (i.e. Indiana Jones, Star Wars). So it's the same for any movie.
Oh, and how much of those robot films do girls go to? Like all of them. I've gone to all (or most) of those superhero and adventure movies. It's so stupid of them to rule out girls.


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Mesa's Annual Territorial Days in February kicks off a whole year of exciting events. With numerous museums, including the Mesa Southwest Museum and the Mesa Historical Museum, visitors enjoy exhibits while learning something new. The open-air Mesa Amphitheatre is a showcase for dance, dramatic performances, the Mesa Symphony Orchestra and the Southwest Shakespeare Company. Red Mountain Park, created by a man-made lake set against the Superstition Mountains, is a recreational attraction. Skate board at your own risk at Reed Park, check out Cactus League Spring Training at Mesa's own Hohokam Stadium, or visit the Mesa Sports Hall of Fame.
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Here are some of the highlights from Lowcountry high school football teams that played Friday night:
The Hanahan Hawks shutout Berkeley in a 36-0 victory at home. See a photo gallery from the game here.
The Summerville Green Wave knocked off the Fort Dorchester Patriots 24-7 at Fort Dorchester. See a photo gallery from the game here.
James Island lost 27-13 in Hilton Head.
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"Featuring life story interviews with significant researchers"
The Pioneers of Social Research resource is a rich, dynamic and expanding resource for the social sciences.
It includes in-depth life-story interviews with 34 pioneers of British social research, including eminent scholars such as Peter Townsend and Ann Oakley. The resource also provides selected thematic extracts from the interviews and links to research data. Each interview - conducted by oral historian Paul Thompson - covers the researcher's family and social background and key influences with detailed accounts of major projects.
This resource enables faceted browsing of the extracts by subject, theme, researcher and methodological approach. In addition audio versions of the extracts bring the pioneers' stories to life. This makes it ideal for teaching as it engages students in an interactive learning experience.
Many of the original interviews with the Pioneers are available to download as a collection, Pioneers of Qualitative Research, 1996-2012, through the UK Data Service.
The browsing interface is powered by Simile Exhibit, an open source application using semantic web technology, with support from the ESRC Ensemble Project.
How can the interviews be used?
Firstly we can look at them as individual biographical accounts, to understand the influences, fieldwork methods, feelings and experiences of a major and admired earlier researcher.
We can trace, through their notably acute social observation, how researchers' lives were shaped by family and society. We can see how their own experience, for example of social class or the extended family, generated their key research concerns.
Coming to better understand an earlier generation of researchers can be an inspiration to younger researchers, offering models and encouragement to help them develop new ideas from their own social observations and experiences.
We can also track significant themes which run across whole sets of interviews, and which are still very much relevant today. Examples include: gender and kinship; the pleasures of research, or how ideas develop; research design; fieldwork methods; ethics; and methods of analysis.
By tracing these themes we can tap into some of the long experience of earlier social researchers on issues which still concern us today.
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We have developed a range of worksheets which will help focus teaching in on selected themes: women and social research, poverty and inequality in the UK, community studies, pioneering research methods and reusing archived data.We recommend that you direct students to the introductory worksheet plus one additional worksheet per exercise.
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On a clear fall day in Rome, I was sitting outside at Flavio al Velavevodetto, a restaurant in Testaccio, in a neighborhood that was once the city's slaughterhouse district and is now inhabited by both older working-class people and gentrifying youngsters. Flavio de Maio, an elegant, middle-aged businessman turned chef, sat across the table from me; a translator sat between us. I had come at the recommendation of a friend, the Rome-based journalist and historian Katie Parla, who told me that if I was looking for the epitome of Roman pasta, this was the place.
I had a question for Flavio: Why did he think that the simplest pastas of all — pasta alla Gricia, pasta cacio e pepe and pasta aglio, olio e peperoncino — were the darlings of Rome, appearing on nearly every menu?
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Last month, more than sixty buses hit the streets of Cleveland encouraging "Green Patriotism" with banners and posters created by Pentagram designer Michael Bierut. Promoting both the ecologically sound use of public transportation and the development of green jobs in the manufacturing sector, the posters can now be seen on buses across the city. Beirut states that "The banners are part of a new environmentalism — one that sees action to address climate change as an imperative to protect both the American and world economies."
The Green Patriot project was organized in conjunction with The Canary Project: Landscapes of Climate Change, an exhibition on display at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The campaign has commissioned posters from several leading firms and designers with the goal of encouraging widespread immediate action:
During World War II the United States was able to mobilize industry and motivate its citizens in breathtaking speed. Factories were overhauled and consumption habits transformed. Conservation (in the form of rationing) became a patriotic act. Strong, graphically compelling posters played a crucial role in the success of this campaign. Taking action was presented in these posters as vital for the common good of the nation and those who were willing to sacrifice were portrayed as attractive, dynamic American heroes. To face the ecological crisis posed by global climate change today a similar mobilization of America is required.
To help meet this ecological challenge, The Canary Project and its partners will launch a national competition this month, where participants will be able to submit Green Patriot Poster designs, as well as to view and vote on posters from the rest of the online community. We will keep you updated!


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PHOENIX (Reuters) - A married couple killed by a lightning bolt near the Grand Canyon this week was identified on Friday as tourists visiting from Thailand.
Aram Kawewong and wife Ratchaya Tantranon, both 20, were among a group of people struck by lightning on Tuesday at the LeFevre Overlook, about 30 miles north of the Grand Canyon National Park, the Coconino County Sheriff's Office said.
The two tourists, from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities had been withheld pending notification kin, the sheriff's office said.
The lightning bolt also struck and injured a boy who was traveling with another group of adults.
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Hearn has said he would accept the chairmanship of the governing body if Sir Rodney Walker is voted out by the players.
Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins are among the top stars supporting a vote against Walker while Steve Davis last week went on national radio to campaign for change.
Writing on his blog, Selby said: "The game certainly cannot get any worse than it is at the moment. If someone like Barry Hearn was to come in, that could be what turns around our sport.
"Hearn would not be seen as a risk as he has proven before what he is capable of. You only have to look at the darts to see what a difference he can make."
Selby, the world no.7, decribed the current set up of the professional circuit as a 'farce.'
He said: "Snooker is still a massive sport and the viewing figures for tournaments are always high. I know we've been hit by the credit crunch, but what I don't understand is why snooker is in such a bad state.
"You look at a sport like darts and that is still surviving during these hard times, so why isn't snooker? Why are we losing tournaments? Why are we down to just six this season?
"Maybe the people behind the scenes are just not working out, so maybe it is time for a change of key personnel, a breath of fresh air.
"The fact that we've got only six ranking tournaments this season is a farce. There is too much of a gap between each event – it's been six weeks since the last tournament!
"We are classed as professionals but, really, we are hardly more than part-time. The gap is so big we could get another job in between tournaments.
"The money is still decent if you are a top-16 pro, you can expect to earn a healthy amount during the course of the season, even if you don't perform particularly well.
"The ones I feel most sorry for are the players outside the top 64. They are classed as pros but they don't get enough money to be able to survive. But for me it's not about the money. All I want to do is play snooker, but it makes it hard to do that when there are only six tournaments."
Selby is hopeful that World Snooker's new tie-up with IMG will yield more tournaments, saying it "would undoubtedly be good for snooker and for the players."
You can read his blog entry in full here.
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- Matt said...
Interesting to see so many players speak out in favour of change as they are at the moment. Really seems to be a feeling that something is different this year and that they have had enough. Will be fascinating to see if that is reflected in Wednesday's result.
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Hi Dave
How are you! Every one is screaming for change and expecting Barry Hearn to come in with a slight miracle and save the game. The potential to be great has always been there for Snooker thinkers but was quashed by the generous hand outs "Forced" on the game by various tobacco companies.
Though the game of snooker is almost one hundred years old, it has never been "Up Graded" nor changed from the Joe Davis days. The pro' players controlled management and demanded "No Change" while they could hold the tobacco people to ransom.
Mr Barry Hearn will not bring back "The Glory Days", but he could if elected clear out the rubbish people that have been treading water, or was it whisky, for the last five years, and by reports, milking the system. Barry's secret may be to tell the players "Its now pay back time" with suggestions they will not like. Mr hey you.
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is there anyone actually supporting the staying of the board lol surely they must know they are gazumped Dave?
ps ur doing a great job ur a star.
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Miller, Ott star in Sabres win
PITTSBURGH — Ryan Miller wanted to bounce back from his last outing. He did.
Now he wants to finish well at home in the season finale.
Miller, who was pulled after allowing four goals in 22 minutes during his previous start, was a rock for the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday during a 4-2 victory over Pittsburgh. The goaltender made 40 stops, and the majority came from close range as the Penguins' high-scoring offense buzzed the Buffalo zone.
"No matter what situation the game is, you prepare and you just go out and try to help the team," Miller said in Consol Energy Center. "That's what I try and do every night. Sometimes it doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, like tonight. You just keep moving forward.
"Unfortunately, we don't have a lot left to do this year."
The Sabres have only one game left. They host the New York Islanders on Friday night to close a disappointing season.
Miller's previous outing in First Niagara Center featured the four early goals and adversarial banter between the goalie and Buffalo's fans. He wants to play in front of them again in what would be a milestone game.
"Yeah, why not?" he said. "It'd be 500, wouldn't it?"
Indeed, Miller has played 499 games for Buffalo, a franchise record. The latest one was impressive.
"It's always nice to win," Miller said. "It does feel a little bit empty, but it's nice to win."
Miller's efforts — coupled with a game-winning goal by Steve Ott and three-point night by Thomas Vanek — allowed the Sabres to end a two-game slide. They've beaten the Eastern Conference-leading Penguins twice in Pittsburgh in three weeks.
"We found a way," Ott said. "It's frustrating at times. We've had a lot of ups and downs this season, but consistency's a main factor.
"There was never an issue if we could beat the best team in the league."
Ott scored the winner with 2:34 to go after a shot by defenseman Mark Pysyk bounced off the glove of Pens goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury. Ott knocked it out of the air into the net, and the goal survived a long video review.
"It was nice to definitely get a break," Ott said. "We didn't get a break all game from the way we were playing. We never had a power play.
"Obviously, they called it a goal on the ice. I looked on the replay and it was close. It could have went either way."
The teams entered the final period tied, 1-1, after Vanek and Chris Kunitz scored 20 seconds part in the first.
The referees played a significant role in keeping the second period scoreless.
Sabres defenseman Andrej Sekera inched toward the net and went top shelf past Fleury with 6:25 gone, but the officials immediately waved off the goal and gave out two penalties. Jussi Jokinen was on Vanek's back and got called for holding, while Vanek went for goaltender interference after getting ridden toward Fleury.
Vanek had a glorious chance to make it 2-1 when he stepped out of the box. Drew Stafford set up him for a breakaway, but Fleury got his body in the way of the shot from the hash marks.
Jochen Hecht, who has been named the Sabres' candidate for the Masterton Trophy in a vote by the Buffalo chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, reaped the rewards of Vanek's hard work along the boards to put the Sabres in front with 13:49 left in the game.
Vanek outdueled three Penguins to get the puck to the center of the Pittsburgh zone. Hecht swooped in and fired a shot past Fleury.
Pittsburgh tied it on the power play with 8:58 remaining. Jarome Iginla took a one-timer from the top of the left circle that whizzed by the glove of Miller to the delight of Penguins fans in the crowd of 18,630.
Ott's goal and an empty-net tally by Vanek with 32.4 seconds left finally put Pittsburgh away.
"Against the top teams we played good hockey," said Vanek, who recorded his 19th and 20th goals to help make Miller's bounce-back game a victory. "The first goal, I think he wants that shot back, but besides that I think he was outstanding. He was great, gave us a chance to win, and we rewarded him."
Sabres 4, Penguins 2
Slap shots: Ryan Miller (left) makes 40 saves as Sabres win in penultimate game as season comes to an end Friday at home against Islanders. ... Ott scores the game-winner with 2:34 left as Sabres end two-game skid. ... Vanek, Hecht score to give Sabres a pair of leads, but Kunitz, Iginla answer quickly.
Fast fact: The Sabres have won at least two in a row in Pittsburgh just six times in franchise history.
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Most power quality disturbances that affect digitally dependant industries are short in duration, so the best option for providing seamless power may be energy storage technologies
Production lines in high-tech manufacturing plants operate through digital switches. Transportation companies rely on digital devices for scheduling and ticketing. Telecommunications facilities require digital equipment to provide customers with the best service. Even financial institutions use binary code to carry out numerous transactions. And despite the technologically advanced nature of all of these industries, each one can be brought to a grinding halt by an event that lasts less than a second.
All of these industries are vulnerable to small power quality disturbances because they rely on digital controls. Even a 30% sag that lasts just a few cycles can close down an entire plant. Power outages are so often associated with massive events like the recent blackout in the Northeast that it's easy to overlook the damage and disruption that short-duration disturbances can cause to facilities that rely on 24/7 power. To make matters worse, recovery from outages can take several hours, making power quality events a costly disruption for any facility. Estimates for costs associated with outages throughout the United States range from $35 billion to $150 billion per year.
Not long ago, power quality was a technical issue that interested only a few highly specialized experts. The rapid rise of digital technology, though, has made it a widespread concern. And as engineers and facilities managers do what they can to increase the "nines" at their plants, the manufacturers of backup power technologies are doing what they can to help out.
Because the majority of power quality events are so short, the most likely choice for combatting the problem is battery backup. Energy storage technologies have made great strides in recent years and now offer a variety of choices for ride-through power, proving that although simple in concept, batteries can provide a reliable solution to a complex problem.Battery technology. A wide array of batteries is available for energy storage. Dr. Imre Gyuk, program manager for the Energy Storage Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, D.C., breaks down the various types of batteries currently available for purchase into three categories — classical, flow, and advanced — and provides a practical look at how they're applied in real life settings.
Classical batteries comprise the styles and models that are most readily associated with the term "battery."Lead-acid (LA) batteries. Widely used in automobiles and trucks, they're inexpensive and their operating characteristics are fairly well known. The largest battery system using LA batteries is located in Puerto Rico and provides spinning reserve as well as voltage and frequency control for the island's power grid. At 20MW and 14MWh, the system delivers both power and energy. Although the tropical location makes extra demands on the batteries, officials have decided to double the capacity of the system in the near future.
A transportable LA system with carefully integrated power electronics has been developed with partial funding from the DOE. The system allows high-tech customers to avoid the disastrous effects of micro outages and voltage sags with a payback of one to two years. It has been used successfully in polymer extrusion factories and semiconductor plants with loads ranging from 2MW to 16MW.Valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries. VRLAs require less maintenance than standard LA batteries. They're sealed, except for a small vent that controls internal pressure, and they require no topping off with water. On the Alaskan island of Metlakatla, engineers installed a 1MW/1.4MWh VRLA system to shield a town from the frequent momentary brownouts that occurred whenever a local sawmill processed a tree. Gel batteries. These batteries are becoming popular in Europe because they're more robust and can take more heat and charge abuse. However, they're more expensive. Nickel cadmium (NiCd) batteries. Despite their rarity in large stationary applications, a 40MW system is being built for voltage support on a long power line to Fairbanks, Alaska. Their resistance to cold may have been among the deciding factors in selecting this type of battery.
Flow batteries present an interesting feature: they can decouple power and energy. A central cell stack provides power, but total energy is furnished by a reservoir of rechargeable electrolyte, which can be situated anywhere that's convenient and for which there are no size limits.Zinc-bromine batteries. These are available off the shelf and have been deployed at a number of sites. Again, integrated power electronics are essential to successful applications. Vanadium redox batteries (VRBs). Developed in Australia and Japan, this technology has been deployed in units as large as 500kW/10 hrs for load management in Japan. One of the more interesting applications features electrolyte storage in plastic bags, which can be stuffed into available crawl spaces and other residual areas. The technology also can provide voltage control. Sodium bromide batteries. These batteries have received considerable interest recently. A 15MW/8 hr facility is under construction in the United Kingdom. A similar system is planned for the state of Mississippi in collaboration with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Advanced batteries offer a vastly decreased footprint and excellent maintenance characteristics when compared to the two other categories of batteries. However, they tend to be expensive for large-scale applications. Lithium ion, lithium polymer, and nickel metal hydride batteries have been developed mainly for automotive use. Sodium sulfur batteries are a special case among advanced technologies.
Developed in Japan, this battery operates at high temperatures. Extensive tests have demonstrated safe containment under extreme conditions. Some 38 systems totaling about 2MW and 124MWh have been installed in Japan. The largest of these installations, located at a substation in the foothills of Mt. Fuji, provides 6MW for 8 hrs. It also can supply active and reactive power to mitigate voltage sags and frequency fluctuations. Operation of a 500kW unit should begin in the United States in the near future. The unit will be used for load leveling or as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).Flywheels and more. Whereas classical LA batteries or novel flow batteries rely on chemistry, flywheels, supercapacitors, and superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems rely on physics. Therefore, they're more robust and less subject to the ravages of entropy. Flywheels store kinetic energy, capacitors store electrostatic energy, and SMES systems store magnetic-field energy. A GE EDG presentation titled, "Advances in Energy Storage for Critical Power Systems" provides insight into these evolving energy storage technologies.
Flywheels. Although an integral part of engine designs for hundreds of years, flywheels are increasingly attracting interest in the power quality arena. In critical power systems, flywheel energy storage systems (FESS) are used to bridge short-term (5 sec to 30 sec) power quality events or to support the load until a fast-start backup generator is activated. Fig. 3 (above) shows a simplified representation of a FESS. Fig. 4 shows a cross section view of one type of flywheel, along with an elevation of its free-standing enclosure with components noted.
According to the presentation noted above, increasing the radius or speed of a flywheel can increase the stored energy. However, this will also increase the internal stress on the material and/or require more sophisticated bearings. As a result, there are two types of flywheels currently on the market: high-speed flywheels (25,000 rpm to 80,000 rpm) made of composite material and low-speed flywheels (2,000 rpm to 10,000 rpm) made of steel.
In a high-speed FESS, a power electronic rectifier/inverter, which is necessary to correct the large volume swing at the generator terminals over the speed range, is connected at the output of the generator. The energy is injected at this point into the DC link circuit of the system. The high-speed FESS has the advantage of compact size for a given amount of power delivered.
On the other hand, low-speed systems are considerably larger than their high-speed counterparts for a given amount of stored energy, their flywheels are made of steel instead of composite materials, and they use conventional bearings with a magnetic support, which is used to support the large rotor weight. Only a partial vacuum is necessary to maintain low frictional losses. These losses, combined with the excitation losses, result in a float charge that's roughly double that of typical high-speed storage systems.
Like the high-speed FESS, most low-speed FESSs use either a single-stage insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) or a rectifier/inverter for power transfer. Some operate with an induction or mechanical coupling instead of this DC interface. The former coupling type can be used to correct for changing rotational frequency. The latter coupling type, however, must compensate for this through power electronics that act as a 3-phase exciter winding in the generator.
The greatest advantage that flywheels offer over batteries is their ability to predict with pinpoint accuracy the amount of energy remaining.
High-temperature superconducting flywheels are currently under development with funding from the DOE. Such systems would offer inherent stability, minimal power loss, and simplicity of operation, as well as increased energy storage capacity.Supercapacitors. Also known as ultracapacitors, these unique devices — basically electrochemical double-layer capacitors — consist of two electrodes, a separator, and an electrolyte. The electrodes can be made from a highly conductive alloy containing metal oxides, carbons, and conducting polymers. The separator is a membrane that allows mobility to charged ions but restricts electronic conductance. The electrolyte may be solid state, organic, or aqueous, depending on the type of supercapacitor and application.
Like a battery, the operating voltage of a cell is about 1.3V to 2.5V. However, combined parallel strings of supercapacitors can achieve hundreds of volts. Since these values are typical for flywheel systems, many compare supercapacitors with uncoupled flywheel systems. A comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each is shown in the table).
Supercapacitors show great promise for industrial applications because of the following attributes:
Technical maturity
Chemical inertness
Very limited environmental impact (no use of heavy metals)
Expected performance vs. reasonable cost
Although these attributes are impressive, a large-scale supercapacitor system has yet to be fielded.Superconducting magnetic energy storage systems (SMESs). Instead of storing kinetic or chemical energy, SMES devices store energy in the magnetic field generated by a loop of endless current ( Fig. 5 below) A zero-resistance coil passes DC current and stores in its magnetic field an amount of energy described by the equation E=0.5×L×I 2. Superconductivity allows the coil to be wound very compactly, resulting in an achievable high specific energy density. Obviously, the superconductivity also minimizes resistive losses of the passing current. Since the instantaneous energy content depends on the square of the current, the remaining energy can also be measured very accurately.
The advantage of the SMES lies in its ability to store large amounts of power and to charge and discharge orders of magnitude more times than even the best batteries. Also, it has high efficiency for short-duration storage, making it well suited for pulse discharge applications.
Unfortunately, the effect of SMES technology on light industrial or UPS applications isn't very clear. SMES-based systems tend to be more expensive and require larger space than other comparable energy storage systems. Also, they are less suited to continuous standby applications. Nevertheless, the ability to operate at low- and medium-voltages and discharge up to 3MW from a single unit makes this technology appealing for very critical loads.
Several 1MW units are used for power quality control throughout the world. One recent development was the deployment of a string of distributed SMES units in northern Wisconsin to enhance stability of a transmission loop. The line had been subject to large sudden load changes due to the operation of paper mills and had the potential for uncontrolled fluctuations and voltage collapse. Besides stabilizing the grid, the six SMES units also provide increased power quality to customers served by connected feeders. Other units have recently been installed in the Houston area, and the TVA is installing a unit for fast power control.Fuel cells. Believe it or not, the first fuel cell was developed in 1839. Primitive in comparison to today's design, Grove's invention was the first in a long line of stored energy devices. However, fuel cell technology wasn't put into use until the '60s, when NASA installed this technology to generate power on the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft.
The above-mentioned paper also provides insight into the technological advances in this technology. Fuel cells, an alternative to reciprocating engines, are electrochemical devices that directly convert hydrogen or hydrogen-rich fuels into electricity without combustion (Fig. 6). The process is very efficient, with the cells theoretically converting as much as 80% of the chemical energy in the fuel into electricity.
These devices are similar to a battery in structure, with two porous electrodes separated by an electrolyte. They use a chemical reaction between a hydrogen-based fuel and an oxidant, usually oxygen, to produce electricity. The hydrogen-based fuel is fed into the anode of the fuel cell. Oxygen then enters the fuel cell through the cathode and, with the aid of a catalyst, the hydrogen atom splits into a proton (H+) and an electron. The proton then passes through the electrolyte to the cathode, and the electrons travel through an external circuit connected as a load and create a DC current. At the cathode, the protons combine with hydrogen and oxygen to produce water and heat.
The general design of most fuel cells is similar, except for the electrolyte. There are five types of fuel cells, each defined by its electrolyte:
Solid polymer (proton exchange membrane, or PEM)
Phosphoric acid
Molten carbonate
Solid oxide (SOFC)
Alkaline and PEM fuel cells operate at lower temperatures (50°C to 260°C) and are designed mainly for use in transportation applications. The other three types operate at higher temperatures (as high as 1,000°C for SOFC) and are being developed for use in co-generation and large central power plants. Fuel cells generate very low levels of NOx and CO emissions because the power conversion is an electrochemical process.
The stack, or the part of a fuel cell that contains the electrodes and electrolytic material, is the major contributor to the cost of the total system. Although costly, stack replacement is necessary when the fuel cell's efficiency degrades and as stack operating hours add up.What the future holds. There are a number of discernible trends in energy storage technology. According to Dr. Gyuk, storage units, particularly those used in applications requiring appreciable amounts of power, are increasingly factory assembled and tested. Customers want plug-and-play units. They have neither the time nor the expertise to tease a system into optimal performance.
He goes on to say that the trend is toward fully integrated electronics with carefully designed inverters and control systems. Eventually, you can expect the controls to acquire a certain amount of intelligence to respond to weather or market signals. At the same time, such systems will be addressable through the Internet for diagnostics or inventory.
Also, hybrid systems that combine energy storage for seamless response with backup power for reliability are becoming available. Backup usually consists of diesel generators, but microturbines and fuel cells will play a role in the future.
Finally, Dr. Gyuk says that energy storage systems are getting bigger. Reliability for semiconductor factories and other sensitive industries requires multi-megawatt power, and transmission stability applications have even higher needs. Energy management applications may eventually result in storage facilities of greater than 100MW.
Regardless of what method of energy storage you choose, it's becoming clear that some form of backup power will be necessary at most facilities now that digital power needs have become so prevalent. When even a few seconds of downtime can be costly, providing the proper short-duration ride-through capabilities can be a valuable step to protecting critical power processes.
Sidebar: Tale of the "Nines"
The power quality industry expresses the degree of reliability as the number of "nines." The U.S. national power grid yields about 3 nines, or 99.9% reliability (The Northeast blackout of August 14, 2003 withstanding). But digital industries would like to have no more than a single 1-cycle outage per year, which corresponds to 9 nines of reliability.
This terminology can be somewhat misleading in that the number of nines relates to total electrical supply outages. However, the important figure for facility personnel is total downtime because this number more closely relates to the number of power quality events than to cumulative duration. Equally misleading, at least for digital industries, are the tables that give the cost per hour of a power outage. Recovery time is much the same for 5-cycle outages as for 5-min ones.
A better way to approach this is to look at scatter plots that display the magnitude and duration of voltage fluctuations. Events falling outside the ITIC Curve (see Fig. 1 ) are likely to cause system failures.
EPRI has collected extensive data, and a new study of power quality in Silicon Valley is underway with DOE funding. Fig. 2 (right) summarizes the results of these studies using the framework of IEEE Standard 1159, "IEEE Recommended Practice for Monitoring Electric Power Quality." The diagram shows the percentage of fatal power quality events in different regions of the chart. The point to note here is that 98% of fatal power quality events are shorter than 15 sec — and most of them are voltage sags.
Energy storage represents virtually the only option for providing seamless continuity of a power supply and maintaining it for the crucial 15 sec. Even the fastest diesel generators can't respond fast enough, and other forms of distributed generation (DG), such as microturbines and fuel cells, are even slower.
Of course, if you have critical loads, you could opt to disengage from the grid and rely entirely on DG. Using an N+1 or N+2 configuration would provide continuous high-quality power, but this option could be considerably more expensive than grid power. It may also conflict with emission standard requirements in many parts of the country. Furthermore, if loads are variable, you will need some energy storage because most DG has bad load-following characteristics.
The ideal solution combines energy storage for at least 15 sec and DG for backup. The price of the equipment, maintenance and fuel costs, and the cost of downtime will determine the exact balance of storage and DG.


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Regulatory Reform in the 104th Congress
John F. Cooney
Regulatory reform was bitterly contested in the 104th Congress. The Senate failed to pass Senator Dole's global regulatory process reform bill by a narrow margin. As has been reported previously in these pages, however, a number of lesser nonprogram-specific reform measures did pass, including the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and amendments to the Regulatory Flexibility Act and Paperwork Reduction Act. [ See "More Stealth Regulatory Reform," Admin. & Reg. L. News, Summer 1996 (available on the Section WWW page); "Report Card on Regulatory Reform," Admin. & Reg. L. News, Summer 1995 (available on WestLaw).]
In addition to these laws, the 104th Congress achieved significant regulatory reform in several substantive programs. For example, the major telecommunications deregulation bill was passed; the food safety law was amended to replace the Delaney Clause with a more sensitive risk assessment measure with respect to agricultural pesticide residues; and a substantial foundation was constructed for future deregulation of the electric utility industry.
Further, Congress quietly passed two environmental bills with significant regulatory reform features, the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments (Pub. L. No. 104-182) and the Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Act (Pub. L. No. 104-304). Each law contains sector-specific provisions that address the cost-benefit and risk assessment issues that proved intractable at a broad philosophical level. Since the composition of the new Congress is little changed, the progress of these two bills likely foreshadows the fortunes of regulatory reform proposals in 1997-98.
Safe Drinking Water Act. Two features of this law had long been criticized. First, EPA was required to set new drinking water standards for possible carcinogens at a level at which no adverse health effects could be shown to exist, plus an adequate margin of safety. In making those decisions, EPA could not consider costs. Second, the law adopted a "one size fits all" approach, in which small water systems had to follow the same standards as a metropolis, regardless of the actual risks to consumers or costs.
Events proved that the policy of chasing minute risks from potential carcinogens, regardless of cost, poorly served the public health. In 1993, the Milwaukee water system became contaminated with Cryptosporidium, which killed 131 people and infected 400,000 others. In 1996, the Washington, D.C., water system exceeded the EPA standard for the bacterium E. coli and had to be flushed with large doses of chlorine. The Milwaukee epidemic and the contamination of their own drinking water persuaded many members of Congress that the law misdirected public resources to minor cancer risks, and thereby soaked up resources that could have been better used to address critical health risks from traditional bacterial pollutants.
In August 1996, Congress amended the law to concentrate resources on public health outcomes, rather than devising rules of universal application; to allow EPA to focus on the contaminants with the greatest actual risk; and to provide smaller municipalities with flexibility in implementing the law. In particular, the amendments require EPA to conduct a risk assessment for each new proposed maximum contaminant level and to study the quantifiable and nonquantifiable benefits and costs. Section 104(a) further provides that EPA must publish a determination whether the benefits justify or do not justify the costs of the proposed standards. Finally, Congress accelerated to twenty-four hours the time within which a water system must notify EPA of an exceedance and established a mechanism by which water systems must notify residents of the contaminants found in their water systems.
The new cost-benefit provision does not formally prohibit EPA from issuing a drinking water standard if the costs exceed the benefits. However, this "soft" cost-benefit provision requires EPA to assemble substantial health and cost data. Regulatory reform advocates were satisfied that collection of these data makes it unlikely as a practical matter that EPA will proceed without a strong case for the corresponding benefits. At the same time, some lawmakers with concerns about the mechanical application of cost-benefit provisions accepted this approach, because it provided wiggle room for EPA to proceed with a drinking water standard if it believed real, but unquantifiable, public health benefits overcame more readily quantifiable costs.
The Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Act. This bill incorporates two significant regulatory initiatives devised by the Senate. It authorizes a demonstration project to explore whether the existing regulatory regime can be improved. And it establishes an explicit cost-benefit test for future rules.
The demonstration project provision allows the Department of Transportation to work with one pipeline to develop an alternative, less costly set of pipeline safety standards, as long as the new standards provide the public at least the same degree of protection as the existing rules.
Natural gas pipelines are a good subject for such an experiment. First, the major safety risk is well understood—catastrophic rupture. There is little concern with harms that are hard to quantify, like exposure to carcinogens, or benefits whose valuation is controversial, like natural resource damages. Second, gas pipelines run primarily through rural areas. The current DoT rule follows the traditional approach of requiring a uniform level of protection for each mile of the pipeline. By determining whether the safety regimen can be tailored to the actual degree of risk for different segments of the pipeline, the demonstration program will establish whether public health and the environment can be better protected by shifting safety expenditures from unpopulated areas to urban areas.
The cost-benefit language was proposed by DoT. This "strong" cost-benefit principle would allow the secretary to issue a new rule "only upon a reasoned determination that the benefits of the intended standard justify its costs." At first, Senators Glenn and Levin blocked the bill because of the cost-benefit provision. They proposed alternative language under which the secretary could consider cost-benefit information, but it would not "control" DoT decisions. The two Senators agreed to DoT's stronger cost-benefit provision in the specific context of natural gas pipeline safety, in return for a commitment from the Republican leadership that this action would not be considered "as a precedent for adopting a similar standard in any other program." Senator Glenn specifically noted that the standard could not be used "in the debate on the larger regulatory reform bill."
In the House, several powerful Democrats, including John Dingell, opposed the bill because of the demonstration program and the cost-benefit language. They argued that these provisions might increase the risks of spills and explosions.
The bill passed the House on a close vote, but the battle did not end. Environmental groups and several ranking House Democrats, including Reps. Dingell, Waxman, and Miller, attempted to persuade the president to pocket veto the bill. The president ultimately signed the bill.
Conclusions. The legislative history of these bills teaches two important lessons for the 105th Congress. First, regulatory improvements are likely to be enacted incrementally, through provisions narrowly tailored to a particular sector, and not by a comprehensive "silver bullet" approach that the Republicans tried in 1995.
Second, at a global level, the suspicions generated by the regulatory process debate in the 104th Congress have not died down. The positions taken on the Pipeline Reauthorization bill by prominent Democrats in both chambers reveal the problems facing efforts to move general regulatory process legislation through a narrowly divided Congress. However, the protagonists have devised a common vocabulary to describe their differences. This suggests that compromise may be possible in less controversial areas of health and safety regulation.
John F. Cooney is with Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti in Washington, D.C.
This article originally appeared in Administrative and Regulatory Law News, Winter 1997 (22:2).


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- Immunization and School Entry Requirements (District Procedure)
A physical exam dated within 12 months prior to registration is required of all students K-12 except those transferring from any Florida public or private school. This must be done and signed by a physician, PA, ARNP or chiropractor.
Prior to entry, attendance or transfer to Florida schools (kindergarten through 12th grade), each child shall have on file a Florida Certification of Immunization, DH 680
CLICK HERE for the School Entry Immunization Requirements
CLICK HERE for the Seventh Grade Immunization Requirements
There are two types of exemptions for the immunization requirement: MEDICAL and RELIGIOUS. Exemptions will be granted for the following reasons:
- The parent of the child states that the administration of immunizing agents conflicts with his or her religious tenets or practices. This exemption must be granted by the Department of Health. The parent must call the Lee County Health Department to make an appointment for obtaining the religious exemption.
- A licensed physician certifies in writing, on a form provided by the Department of Health, that the child should be permanently exempt from the required immunization(s) for medical reasons.
- A licensed physician certifies in writing, on a form provided by the Department of Health, that the child is in the process of obtaining the required immunizations.
- The Department of Health determines that, according to recognized standards of medical practice, any required immunization is unnecessary or hazardous.
In the event of a communicable disease emergency, school health and immunization records of non-immunized students will be made available to the Lee County Health Department Director. Those students identified as not being immunized against the disease for which the emergency has been declared shall be temporarily excluded from school until such time as is specified by the Lee County Health Department Director.Return to Top
- Medicine in School (District Procedure)
When a student requires medication to be given during school hours, the following procedure must be followed:
- A Parent Permission for Medication, MIS 398 form must be completed for every medication which is to be given. This form, which is obtained from the school clinic, must be current, filled out completely, and signed by a parent or guardian. A written note will be accepted for one day only.
- If the prescribed medication is to be taken for longer than 2 weeks, or if the medication is an over-the counter medication such as cough drops, cough syrup or Tylenol, a Physician's Permission for Medication, MIS 401 form must also be completed. This form must include a valid health reason and must, be fully completed and signed by the prescribing health care provider prior to the administration of the medication by school personnel.
- Each prescribed medication must be received in its original container with the student's name, name of medication, dosage and amount clearly visible on the bottle.
- All medication should be brought to the school by the parent or guardian and must be counted at the time of receipt.
- An asthmatic student in grades 4-12 may carry a metered dose inhaler on their person when they have written permission from both their parent/guardian and their health care provider. Younger students may be given permission to carry an inhaler when deemed able by the licensed prescriber, parent and school nurse. An Authorization Form, available from the school clinic, must be completed.
- A student at risk for life threatening allergic reactions may carry an Epinephrine auto-injector and self-administer while in school, participating in school-sponsored activities, or in transit to or from school or school-sponsored activities if the school has been provided with parental and physician authorization which includes a verification of the student's ability to self-administer the Epinephrine. An Authorization Form, available from the school clinic, must be completed.
- All medication remaining at the end of the school year must be either picked up by the parent or destroyed.
- Head Lice Information (District Procedure)
Pediculosis (head lice) rarely causes direct harm, are not known to transmit infectious disease, are not contagious and therefore should not be considered a medical or public health program. Head lice are annoying, uncomfortable and socially unacceptable. They may cause itching, irritation and embarrassment.
Head lice are usually transmitted by direct contact with infected person's hair, but may be transferred with shared combs, hats or hair accessories. It is the policy of the School District of Lee County to control the spread of pediculosis among school age children with minimal interruption of the learning process. Screening for pediculosis is necessary only when infestation of live lice or nits are identified on an individual student or at the request of the school principal.
- When there is suspicion of infestation on an individual student, he/she should be sent to the Clinic for inspection.
- If live lice or nits are found, the child's parents should be notified. The child is not to return to school until the hair is treated and all nits are removed.
- A screening of the entire class should be done by the clinic assistant.
- Upon returning to school, the student should be go directly to the clinic to be reinspected. He/she will not be allowed to return to the classroom until all live lice and nits have been removed from the hair.
- Children should not be over treated with pediculicides. An initial treatment with a pediculicide followed by mechanical removal of all nits is the most effective treatment.
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The Nike Tennis Camp at University of Illinois will host two week-long junior camps and will take place from June 23rd – 27th and July 21st-25th. Both Overnight and Day Camp options are available for boys & girls ages 9-18 and of all ability levels. Full Day Camps run from 8:30am – 4:00pm and include tennis instruction and lunch. In addition to the general camp sessions, we will include a special tournament training component during the first session and a high school program during the second session.
"We are thrilled to be back at the University of Illinois and working with such an outstanding coach as Michelle Dasso," explains Wendy Shpiz, National Manager of the Nike Tennis Camps. "Michelle brings to the table not only years of coaching experience but a unique background as a top collegiate player. She understands what it takes to develop your game every step of the way."
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US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is America's largest sports camp network and the licensed operator of Nike Sports Camps. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement.
Campers, parents, and coaches interested in the 2013 Nike Tennis Camp at University of Illinois can visit USSportscamps.com or call 1-800-645-3226.


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